THEORY AND PRACTICE. Daniel Drezner on John DiIulio's difficulties, and Condoleezza Rice's successes, with links to several other commentaries. Sometimes I suspect that President Bush's changing statements vis-a-vis Iraq are something he learned as Governor, dealing with university administrators, who are prone to ask "how deeply" when the State House says "bend over." Perhaps he is seeking to elicit similar, chicken-with-its-head-cut-off reactions from Saddam Hussein, who will then issue his military orders, followed by counter-orders, followed by disorder, perhaps followed by the generals showing a little more spine than university administrators ...